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Magical Entities Are Not For Sale
by Chris Turner
genre: fantasy, short story, young adult
It’s a cute story about a nine year-old who learns the importance of responsibility, honesty, and self-restraint while she works at a candy-store whose proprietor gives away magical “entities” to deserving patrons.
My only problem with it was it’s level of language. What nine year-old uses words like “pretentious” “prudent” and “perplexity?” Am I so out of tune with children now that those words are in their vocabulary or was the book written to challenge young readers?
This just wasn’t for me.
3 stars out of 5.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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The kind of kid with the gumption to go and ask her mum what they mean?
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This kid used them in her dialogue, and properly. It wasn’t other characters using advanced dialogue around her.
I was referring to the reader, not the character in the book. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
Ooooh yeah, it might be good for pushing a youngster’s vocabulary. I found out after I wrote the review that it’s a part of a longer collection.
… more thoughts: as a kid I would simply have loved the alliteration of those words. Even if I hadn’t understood them, even if they occurred in different parts of the book, the emerging pattern would have struck me.
Yeah they were different parts of the book, but pretty close given that it’s a short story. I don’t think I would have noticed it as a kid 😀
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